Where does “mustarastas” come from?

mustarastas (Finnish) comes from Finnish rastas, from Proto-Finnic rastas, from Proto-Baltic trazdas.

mustarastas (Finnish): blackbird

Definitions

  1. blackbird

Ancestry of “mustarastas”, step by step

mustarastas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rastas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrastasthrush
2Proto-Finnicrastasthrush
3Proto-Baltictrazdas—

via Finnish musta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
2Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
Every word from Proto-Baltic trazdas →Every word from Proto-Finnic rastas →Every word from Finnish rastas →
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